by David Edwards-May | Dec 21, 2022 | Waterways promotion
IWI’s president Rudy Van der Ween attended the 27th UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt, on November 13-15, at the kind invitation of the World Historic and Cultural Canal Cities Cooperation Organisation (WCCO), based in Yangzhou, China. Our...
by David Edwards-May | Jan 30, 2014 | Cultural & industrial heritage, Policy, Recreational waterway dimensions, Waterfront development, Waterway funding, Waterway restoration
A sense of urgency permeates the air in Lombardy as well as in neighbouring Piedmont, Emilia Romagna and Veneto regions, regarding Italy’s network of navigable canals and rivers. What reality will be revealed to the world of inland waterway specialists and advocates,...
by David Edwards-May | Nov 21, 2013 | Cultural & industrial heritage, Personal, Policy, Waterway funding, Waterway personalities
Inland Waterways International as a body and its members as individuals were saddened to hear that Glenn Millar, friend and supporter of inland waterways, passed away in September 2013 after a long illness. Glenn was the economic development manager at the Canal and...
by David Edwards-May | Feb 17, 2013 | Cultural & industrial heritage, Policy, Waterway funding
The saga of the Canadian Heritage canals managed by Parks Canada grinds on. In the early New Year Parks Canada introduced a new fee schedule for using the locks on its three major historic canals; the Rideau, The Trent Severn Waterway and the Quebec Canals. Not only...
by David Edwards-May | Jan 27, 2013 | Cultural & industrial heritage, Policy, Waterway funding, Waterway restoration
VNF’s summary report on its activities in 2012 devotes one of its 10 chapters to the tree-replanting programme and corporate patronage approach to funding the €200 million restoration of the Canal du Midi’s characteristic landscape. VNF reports (in its New Year...
